The initiative to convene a second “Big Three” conference came from Roosevelt, who hoped for a meeting before the US presidential election in November 1944, but then pushed for a meeting in early 1945 in a neutral location in the Mediterranean. Malta, Cyprus and Athens were each proposed. Stalin insisted that his doctors were against long journeys, rejecting these options. [7] Instead, he suggested that they meet instead in the City of Yalta on the Black Sea in Crimea. Stalin`s fear of flying also contributed to this decision. [8] Nevertheless, Stalin officially designated Roosevelt as the “host” of the conference; All plenary sessions were to take place in the American accommodation of Livadia Palace, and Roosevelt, without exception, sat in the center of the group photos (all taken by Roosevelt`s official photographer). 3. That the Government of the United States, on behalf of the three Powers, consult the Chinese Government and the Provisional Government of France on the decisions taken at this conference on the proposed world organization. The Potsdam Conference was held from July to August 1945, in the presence of Clement Attlee (who had replaced Churchill as Prime Minister)[37][38] and President Harry S. Truman (who represented the United States after Roosevelt`s death). [39] In Potsdam, the Soviets deny allegations that they interfered in the affairs of Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. [34] The conference led to (1) the Potsdam Declaration on the Surrender of Japan[40] and (2) the Potsdam Agreement on the Soviet Annexation of former Polish territory east of the Curzon Line and the provisions to be addressed in a possible final treaty to end World War II for the annexation of parts of Germany east of the Oder-Neisse Line to Poland. and Northeast Prussia to the Soviet Union.

Each of the three leaders had their own agenda for post-war Germany and liberated Europe. Roosevelt wanted Soviet support for the United States. Pacific War against Japan, particularly for the planned invasion of Japan (Operation August Storm) as well as Soviet participation in the United Nations; Churchill lobbied for free elections and democratic governments in Central and Eastern Europe (especially Poland); and Stalin called for a Soviet sphere of political influence in Central and Eastern Europe as an essential aspect of the USSR`s national security strategy. Stalin`s position at the conference was one he considered so strong that he could dictate the terms. According to James F. Byrnes, a member of the U.S. delegation and future secretary of state, “it was not about what we would let the Russians do, but about what we could get the Russians to do.” [9] By this time, the Soviet army had fully occupied Poland and held much of Eastern Europe with military power three times greater than that of allied forces in the West. [Citation needed] The declaration of liberated Europe did little to dispel the armistice agreements on the sphere of influence included in the ceasefire agreements. The Conference agreed on the following statement on Poland: The Conference agreed that the issue of the main war criminals should be investigated by the three Foreign Ministers, which should be reported in due course after the conclusion of the Conference.

(b) associated nations which declared war on the common enemy before 1 March 1945. (For this purpose, the term “associated nations” referred to the eight associated nations and Turkey.) At the World Organization Conference, delegates from the United Kingdom and the United States of America will support a proposal to admit two Soviet socialist republics, Ukraine and Belarus, to initial membership. It was agreed that the five countries that will have permanent seats on the Security Council should consult each other before the United Nations Conference on Territorial Trusteeship. But with his troops occupying much of Germany and Eastern Europe, Stalin was able to effectively ratify the concessions he had won at Yalta and use his advantage over Truman and Churchill (who was replaced by Prime Minister Clement Atlee during the conference). In March 1946, barely a year after the Yalta Conference, Churchill gave his famous speech declaring that an “Iron Curtain” had fallen on Eastern Europe, signaling the definitive end of cooperation between the Soviet Union and its Western allies and the beginning of the Cold War. The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimean Conference and codenamed Argonaut, took place from 4 to 11 September. It was the meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union during World War II to discuss the reorganization of Germany and Europe after the war. The three states were represented by President Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Prime Minister Joseph Stalin. The conference took place near Yalta in Crimea in the Soviet Union in the palaces of Livadia, Yusupov and Vorontsov. Yalta was the second of three major war conferences among the three great ones. It was preceded by the Tehran Conference in November 1943, followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, preceded by a conference in Moscow in October 1944, in which President Roosevelt did not participate, in which Churchill and Stalin had spoken of The European Western and Soviet spheres of influence. [1] “The three heads of government believe that Poland`s eastern border should follow the Curzon Line with digressions of it in some regions of five to eight kilometers in favor of Poland.